Brad Handler: The backbone of eBay’s defense against liability, as well as the backbone of every online community, is the notice-and-take-down regime established by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA established the rules of the road on how copyright was to be enforced online, and what we were able to get in there was this notion that as long as you take it down, you won’t be held liable. That’s a big deal, because without that, it would have been hard for eBay to prosper.
